German States NEWP

JCMhouston

Just arrived home from a F1 weekend at the Austin races and found out I had won this one.

1848 Frankfurt 2 Gulden, KM 337, ex. Brand in MS65. After the ill-fated revolution of 1848, Frankfurt was the seat of the first democratically elected German parliament, the Frankfurt Parliament, which met in the Frankfurter Paulskirche (St. Paul's Church) and was opened on 18 May 1848.



Did you realize Virgil Brand had a collection of 368,000 coins when he died? About 90% were world and ancients.

Zohar

Now that is a super nicely toned piece. I really like it!

astrorat

<< <i>Did you realize Virgil Brand had a collection of 368,000 coins when he died? About 90% were world and ancients. >>

If Mr. Brand's fulltime job was to view his coins individually for 1 minute, it would take him about 3 years to do so (assuming an 8 hour work day). That's a lot of coins!

astrorat

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<< <i>Did you realize Virgil Brand had a collection of 368,000 coins when he died? About 90% were world and ancients. >>

If Mr. Brand's fulltime job was to view his coins individually for 1 minute, it would take him about 3 years to do so (assuming an 8 hour work day). That's a lot of coins! >>



Edited to add ... Nice coin!

worldcoinguy

Great piece and sharp detail. I bet it really pops in hand.

lordmarcovan

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<< <i>Did you realize Virgil Brand had a collection of 368,000 coins when he died? About 90% were world and ancients. >>

If Mr. Brand's fulltime job was to view his coins individually for 1 minute, it would take him about 3 years to do so (assuming an 8 hour work day). That's a lot of coins! >>

Cripes, that's quite a statistic.

Nice coin. The juxtaposition of a single-headed eagle on one side with a double-headed eagle on the other is fun.

It's like somebody snatched the crown off his head from the obverse, and then the reverse shows him doing a double-take, looking both ways to find the thief.